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PS - in my small town people were beaten for not being the right kind of white person.
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I have been trying to move to a small town for a couple of decades.
If any place were serious you think they would have set up a Monster-board type Job Search service for small towns by now.
Even Forbes magazine says that you need to subscribe to a local paper to move to a small town.
How the hell are you supposed to find a job in a small town newspaper that only comes out 1-5 times a week with no Sunday edition and apply to those jobs in a timely manner when the paper takes a few days to arrive on your doorstep?
Are you also expected to subscribe to HUNDREDS of small town papers on the off chance that one of these weekly rags is going to have something in your field?
Has anyone ever thought that maybe the reason everyone is not returning to small towns has to do with the idea that no one can find a job there even if one exists?
BTW - I spent my High School years in a small town and I can attest to the xenophobia also. I was abused endlessly and beaten weekly often at the direction and encouragement of the teachers and coaches.
If any place were serious you think they would have set up a Monster-board type Job Search service for small towns by now.
Even Forbes magazine says that you need to subscribe to a local paper to move to a small town.
How the hell are you supposed to find a job in a small town newspaper that only comes out 1-5 times a week with no Sunday edition and apply to those jobs in a timely manner when the paper takes a few days to arrive on your doorstep?
Are you also expected to subscribe to HUNDREDS of small town papers on the off chance that one of these weekly rags is going to have something in your field?
Has anyone ever thought that maybe the reason everyone is not returning to small towns has to do with the idea that no one can find a job there even if one exists?
BTW - I spent my High School years in a small town and I can attest to the xenophobia also. I was abused endlessly and beaten weekly often at the direction and encouragement of the teachers and coaches.
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Holland MI, and Washington DC are BOTH in the Eastern Time zone.
Please stop cutting and pasting the errors of the original article. It makes you look like you don't think for yourself.
Please stop cutting and pasting the errors of the original article. It makes you look like you don't think for yourself.
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@Weoei: Asians excel in the Humanities, too, just look at any university in America.
I live 500 feet from a university that has been around for 310+ years and has yet to have an Asian tenured in their Creative Writing department. They are Ivy League.
But that IS NOT THE POINT.
The fact that tests are showing a bias is the point.
This has been the case for Decades but we refused to do anything about it when it was harming people of color and ethnic Americans.
People all over the USA excel at a lot of areas that don't fit into MATH or VERBAL. The SAT only measures those areas and as a result the Asian Ceiling has come into being.
Thomas Edison was NEITHER math or verbal.
I live 500 feet from a university that has been around for 310+ years and has yet to have an Asian tenured in their Creative Writing department. They are Ivy League.
But that IS NOT THE POINT.
The fact that tests are showing a bias is the point.
This has been the case for Decades but we refused to do anything about it when it was harming people of color and ethnic Americans.
People all over the USA excel at a lot of areas that don't fit into MATH or VERBAL. The SAT only measures those areas and as a result the Asian Ceiling has come into being.
Thomas Edison was NEITHER math or verbal.
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How to adjust this curve?
Simple.
Just add Creative Writing, Visual Arts, Real History(not just reading paragraphs), Social skills, and any of the performed arts to the SAT and ACT tests.
We are simply refusing to measure ALL the endeavors of human knowledge and the test bias in favor of the pay-heavy fields that Asian families aim for is a side effect of that.
Simple.
Just add Creative Writing, Visual Arts, Real History(not just reading paragraphs), Social skills, and any of the performed arts to the SAT and ACT tests.
We are simply refusing to measure ALL the endeavors of human knowledge and the test bias in favor of the pay-heavy fields that Asian families aim for is a side effect of that.
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That happens many places still. Lots of towns don't allow their daughters to date men from the next poorer town over, the rioting in Cincinnati ten years ago was related to ethnic German Lutherans controlling the city, and just try to get a date in Holland, MI if you aren't part of the Calvinist Dutch Reformed Church.